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        About ILE</h1>
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        The Library Instruction Department's central goal is to build the information literacy
        skills of all WSU students, faculty, and staff. In response to locally and nationally
        generated data, which indicate underdeveloped student research skills, and a lack
        of time by teachers to directly address information literacy in their courses, the
        Library Instruction department has developed the Information Literacy Education
        Project. <a href="javascript: toggle('ILEDescription');">(more...)</a></p>
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            Through the ILE project, librarians and course instructors collaborate to design
            an additional component of an existing research project that directly addresses
            the information literacy elements required to complete the project. For each course,
            an online page is crafted and divided into components mapped to the standards of
            information literacy. The page features objectives for each standard, a customizable
            series of online tutorials, and multiple ways to assess the student's ability to
            learn and transfer the knowledge into a contextualized application. Further, instructors
            are given the tools to provide feedback on each assessed component thus addressing
            demonstrated weak areas of student understanding. Through the ILE project, students
            learn how to better define a research question or thesis, access scholarly information
            in a variety of formats, critically evaluate information quality, ethically and
            legally use information to accomplish a specific purpose, and produce better final
            products.
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        The foundational underpinnings of this project are comprised of the following:</p>
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        <li>In 2008, the <a href="http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/usered/">Library Instruction Department</a>
            received a WSU Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Teaching and Learning Grant from
            the Office of Undergraduate Eduation to assess, expand and enhance the Information
            Literacy Education project.</li>
        <li>In 2007, the <a href="http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/usered/">Library Instruction Department</a>
            received a WSU Teaching and Learning Improvement Grant from the Offices of the Provost
            and Undergraduate Education to aid the Library Instruction Department in the creation,
            maintenance and promotion of the Information Literacy Education project.
            <li>In 2006, the <a href="https://my.wsu.edu/portal/page?_pageid=303,159461&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL">
                Six Learning Goals of the Baccalaureate</a> were adopted by the university. Information
                literacy became further institutionalized as a paramount outcome of WSU undergraduate
                education. The connection to the academic library world is clear because WSU's information
                literacy goal comes directly from the Association for College &amp; Research Libraries'
                <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/standards.pdf">Information
                    Literacy Standards for Higher Education</a> .
                <li>In 2002, WSU launched an overarching strategic plan</a> with its number one goal
                    of offering the best undergraduate experience in a research university.
                    <li>In 2000, the state legislature mandated that Washington public universities develop
                        <a href="http://depts.washington.edu/infolitr/HB2375.htm">a model for assessment of
                            undergraduate information and technology literacy</a>.</li>
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